Understanding & Visible Thinking - April 2012

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Elementary SchoolCoffee Morning

Tuesday 17 April 2012

Visible Thinking


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Visible Thinking

How can our students demonstrate their changing

understandings?

What is visible thinking?

How does visible thinking relate to targetedunderstanding?


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Visible thinking is an approach to

teaching and learning that emphasizesthe use of thinking rout ines and

documentat ion to make thinking more

visible in classrooms. Thinking rout inessupport the development of students as

self -directed learners and learning for

understanding.

Harvard Project Zero


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Visible Thinking

Key Learning Principle #3

Different types of thinking, such as classif icat ion

and categorizat ion, inferent ial reasoning,

analysis, synthesis, and metacognition, mediate

and enhance learning.

Therefore, learning events should engage

students in complex thinking to deepen their

learning.


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GOALS of Visible Thinking

Deeper understanding of content Greater mot ivat ion for learning

Development of learners' thinking and learningabilities.

Development of learners' attitudes toward

thinking and learning and their alertness toopportunities for thinking and learning (the"dispositional" side of thinking).

A shift in classroom culture toward a

community of enthusiast ically engaged thinkersand learners.

Harvard Project Zero


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Building Community

Set t ing norms for part icipat ion

Giving permission for participants to have fun

Thinking about yourself as a learner in thiscontext


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When do you do your bestthinking?

We all think differently times and ways

Different types of thinking needs to betaught explicitly e.g. reflecting,classifying, synthesizing, analyzing


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Visible Thinking De Bono s ThinkingHats

Using the different coloured hats to think creatively

Each of the 6 hats represents a way to look at an issueor problem from a dif ferent perspective:

What opportunit ies does this idea provide? (yellow hat ) What should we be wary of? (black hat)

What s my hunch or gut feeling? (red hat )

What are the facts? (whit e hat )

What s a creat ive, outside the box way of looking atthis? (green hat)

What am I noticing about my thinking throughout thisprocess? (blue hat)


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Put on Your Yellow ThinkingHat!

Imagine that you are a part of the ISM Elementary

Student Council

What are some of the posit ives about soccer on the ES f ield atbreak times?

(Remember you are looking for t he good points or how / whysoccer is an act ivity worth doing)


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Put on Your Black Thinking

Hat!

Now look at this issue of arguments on the soccerf ield wit h your black hat on

What do we need to mindful of? What are the possibleconsequences?

(Remember, you are looking for what is wrong with the idea ofcompetitive soccer in the ES).


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https://twitter.com/#!/Puppiesism


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Kath Murdoch video


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Synect ic

Thinking is l ike..

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